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STATISTICIAN'S SEAHOHIiGHT
[Per United, Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, May 7
The total births in the .dominion, in 1920 were 28,'.f73,''and the rate 21.05 .per 1.000 is the lowest ever recorded. J’ho births, while 320 more than in ,1925, arc '36 less than in 1916, in spite of an increase of nearly a quarter of a million in population. 'There were 058 cases of twins, and 'two of triplets. .' ■ Tho number of illegitimate births .shows a, considerable increase—from 1,332 to 1,473. Ah the figures were much larger in tho latter half (and particularly the last quarter of tho year), •this increase is connected by the. compiler of statistics with the Dunedin Exhibition. .
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Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 12
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